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DAVIS, INLONDON, CONFERSONDEBTS Sunday Dispatch Discloses Ambassador’s Visit Has Co-operation as Goal. By Radio to The Star. LONDON, May i—The talks be- tween Neville Chamberlain, chancel- lor of the exchequer, and Norman Davis, American Ambassador at Large, the last few days, may lead to closer political and economic co-operation | between Britain and the United States, according to the Sunday Dispatch. President Roosevelt sent Mr. Davis to | London especially to sound Mr. Cham- berlain, &s next prime minister, on his attitude toward debt, a new world eco- nomic conference, and disarmament, repbrts the Dispatch article, which continues: “When Mr. Davis reached London three weeks ago, ostensibly to attend meetings of the International Sugar | Conference, he let it be known pri- | vately, one object in coming to Eng- | land was to see Mr. Chamberlain. A | meeting ay from Whitehall, took place, and Mr. Davis explained Pres dent Roosevelt's attitude to world problems and his views as to how peace and economic stability might be at- tained. “Long before his second inaugura- tion President Roosevelt toyed with the idea of calling another World Economic Conference, but he received little encourageiaent from other sh government was. and | ewarm, because ministers | lieve that the Spanish war must first settled before there can be any | attempt to taci bigger problems. “Mr. Chamberlain told Mr. Davis last week, however, that the British nent would be prepared to con- any definite proposals which President Roosevelt might think fit to submit.” “But in the talks, Britain’s war debt was discussed at length, and the Sun- day Dispatch understands proposals will shortly be considered for a con- siderable scaling down of the debt, | snd an agreement for payment over & long period of vears. | “The settlement of Britain's war debt is likely to be part of a new trade agreement with the United States, the preliminary details of which were dis- cussed when Mr. Runciman. president of the Board of Trade, visited Pres dent Roosevelt in Washington at the beginning of this year. “The United States has a big trade balance in her favor but the British government is prepared to maintain this, providing satisfactory arrange- ments can be made for liquidating war debts, and assuring Britain of | credit and supplies in the event of wa “Mr. Davis has already sent long gecret reports to President Roosevelt, and he will leave for the United States immediately after the coronation to report the situation personally.” (Copyright. 1037 Mass Parachute Jumpto Lead to Mass Arrests Dispute Rages Over W hether Students Will Take Leap. B the Associatea Press. CINCINNATI, May 1.—Whether a mass parachute jump of 15 young men and women would be made tomorrow | remained to be seen, officials said to- | night, in the wake of promises of | arrest on one hand, and denials that | the jump would be made, on the othes Paul Glinzak, coal miner, who :ad his first parachute jump les nounced at Smith- | benville, that the age from 14 to 25 simultaneously 7 am. field, Ohio, nea students, nging years, would jump from two or three planes at Sunday at Cincinnati. One report indicated a demonst ra- | tion of one parachute was contem- plated and that students of Gliznak, who operates a parachuting school, would be present only as witnesses. But officials apparently were pro- | ereding on the theory that the mass | drop would be attempted. Police Chief FEugene T. Weatherly said: “Any mass jump at Lunken Airport | —and that's the only place available | within the city—will be followed by mass arre Sheriff George A LH‘Z, jr., delcared | his deputies would “get up before | breakfast” to see that strict Depart- ment of Commerce regulations gov- erning “willful” parachute jumping were complied with, should the plan | be attempted elsewhere within the | county. Regulations require & equip himself with an pack” consisting of one main and another for emergency use. Capt. Lunken Airport, said “nothing doing! “In the first place, there'’s no such thing as a ‘practice’ jump for students or any one else. good—or you don't try it again.” Maj. High Watson, operator of an | sirport north of the city, doubted a mass jump would be attempted. Paul Noelcke, manager of a para- ehute manufacturing firm, denied a mass drop would be attempted. jumper to “exhibition | ‘chute Rains End Famine Threat. SHANGHAI, May 1 (P —Rains falling throughout Szechuan Province for the last 24 hours today removed & threat of further widespread famine. Thousands already have died from lack of food and water. Ellis’ Special LOBSTER DINNER Sl.25 Chesapeake Bay SNAPPER TURTLE STEW A la Newburgh Special 15¢ Special Sea Food LUNCHEON 40e 1011 E St. N.W. Your Favorite | nation demanded. He was a high offi- | Elector of Hanover, and he highly resented such irrev- | erent interference. Al Wunder, superintendent of | § Either the drup LS} Drinks Raw Bar & Restsurant HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, gyptian Princesses to See Coronation Princesses Fawzia (left) and Faiza (right), elder sisters of King Farouk of Egypt, photo- while en route to the coronation of King George VI. graphed at Dover, England, will make a four-month tour of King, They Faithia Europe, The two younger sisters of Egypt’s boy who also wil attend the coronation. They are the Princesses (right). elder princesses and the Queen Mother, ! on thetr Europmn Ionr Faika (left) and will accompany the Nazali, 4. P."Photos. They The King’s Cock Crower This Amusing Tltle Along With Others, No Longer Is Bestowed. (This is the eighth of a series of articles on_symbolism agd sidelights of the coronation ceremony.) BY THOMAS R. HENRY. T IS nearly 200 years since the voice of the King’s Cock Crower has echoed through St. James Palace. Shortly after the accescion of the house of Hanover, the 2rince of afterward George the Second, was taking a late supper with some tipsy pals on Ash Wednesday. The door of the dining room opened. A gentleman attired to represent & rooster stood in the doorway and | crowed 10 times. Then, without any | xplanation, he turned his back and walked away The befuddled Prince, who knew | | very little English and nothing of Eng- | lish customs, was indignant. Either there was a maniac loose in the pal- | ace, he thought, or some irreverent | subject was trying to make a fool of him. It was a choping block offense. The man was pursued and an expla- cial of the palace and was performing the duties of a very exalted office— that of Cock Crower in Chief to His August Majesty George the First, King of Great Britain and Ireland, etc, etc., etc.— Edward Started It. Ever since the days of the sainted Edward his noble predecessors had gone about the palace crowing like cocks, and never before had the custom been questioned. The duty of the offi- cial was to crow the hours every night_during the | period of Lent to | remind his ma- | jesty of Peter's | dereliction after | the crucifixion. | Awakened by the crowing. his mind would be fixed ‘ upon holy thoughts. The appointment of a Cock Crower for his household will not be among the official duties of George the Sixth | after his coronation. On that Ash Wednesday his great - great - great- great - grandfather, in contemptuous defiance of the age-old traditions of the United Kingdom, abolished the office. It was, he said, a lot of non- sense. Nor will he be called upon to name some noble lord as the official Head Holder to His Majesty, although it | | does not appear that this office ever officially has been abolished. It simply | | has been allowed to go by default | through the centuries. The last known holder of the job was one | Solomon Attefeld, to whom the wicked | King John ‘‘gave several lands lb Kapperton and Atterton in Kent, to | | crossings “to their majesties’ be held by this service, that as often as the King should be pleased to cross the sea the said Solomon or his heirs should be obliged to go with him and to hold his majesty’s head if there should be occasion for it.” Got Lands for Head Holding. Both Edward the First and Edward | the Third had for “head holders” rough channel realms in France and granted valuable manors in return for this service— which was exactly what the name indicates in American bar-room parlance. As heir to the principality of Wales George the Sixth might revive, he so desires, a number of highly respected offices maintained by some of his ancient predecessors in that | land—but it is highly their service during any noble lord as Keeper of His Majesty’s Manure Pile, Foot Scratcher | in Chief to His Majesty, or Changer or His Majesty’s Bed Straw. All these were once very serious positions | in the royal households of the Welsh | Kings. The last-named office. in fact, ac- | tually survives traditionally and prob- ably will be represented at the coro- nation—although it may be dispensed with—by the Strewer of Herbs to His Majesty. wire-pulling before the coronation of George the Fourth to secure this ex- | alted office for various high-born la- dies that it has been in some disre- pute ever since. Bed Straw Had to Be Changed. ‘The duty of the Changer of His Majesty’'s Bed Straw was actually to provide the King with fresh straw to sleep on every night—a necessary precaution in those lousy days. The | so many noble maids aspired, had hardly a more dignified origin. Norman days the palace floors were strewn with straw, which was seldom changed. Dogs and falcons shared the rooms with their royal masters and mistresses. Now, when a social gathering was held at the palace there were not seats enough to go around— especially on such a grand occasion as a coronation. The nobility, dressed in their finest attire, had to sit on the floor. aroused unfavorable comment the royal hospitality. King Stephen last of the direct descendants of the Conqueror, ordered that this diffioulty be avoided by having the floor strewn thickly with fresh flowers, and a lady of the household was charged with seeing that it was done. The King's Champion last appeared at the coronation of William the Fourth. The office was long heredi- tary in the family of the Dukes of Mormion, descendants of the hero of Scott’s poem which is familiar to all school boys. The champion’s func- tion was to appear on horseback at a coronation and offer to engage in mortal combat any one who questioned His Majesty's right to the throne. DIAMONDS of proven quality AR Whether you are interested in a diamond at $25.00 or one at SEV- ERAL THOUSAND, you may be sure your diamond will be a DIAMOND of QUALITY when purchased at A, KAHN INC. CHARGE ACCOUNTS Jewelers Platinumsmiths INVITED Stationers A. KAHN Inec. ARTHUR J. SUNDLUN, President 45 Years at 933 F St. if | improbable | that he will feel called upon to name | There was so much political | In | Certain obvious mishaps | as to| Ceremonially it involved approaching the coronation chair on horseback and then riding away backwards. Some of the later champions were not very skillful horsemen. The champion was | dispensed with at the coronation of | George the Third because at a dress rehearsal the horse balked at retiring in the proper longitudinal manner, in- sisted on moving out of the hall head foremost, and, moreover, provided the | monarch with an audible omen of the attitude his 13 colonies across the | Atlantic were to take towards him a few years later. No King's Barber, Either. Nor will there be a King's Barber, to shave his Majesty and wash his feet, for this coronation. It was once a highly respected office, the fee being two loaves of bread, a pitcher of wine, | and the razor and towels with which the job was done. | But while the obviously ridiculous functions at coronations and. later, in the King's household. have been | abolished or al- | 7 lowed to lapse | | N MEY tradition is| (e “ powerful and there are some | "1 offices of ancient | standing, held 7 either through direct descent or ¢ through the hold- | Nt ing of certain PETE lands. There are, L& for example, the | | L /" Bearersof the | Great Golden / | Spurs, who will 5‘«.‘ take part in this | coronation. The | office was established by Richard the Lion-Hearted. | | In the course of time the family in which it was vested by that monarch became split and there was an equal OVER 40 YEARS' EXPERI fully equipped with modern apparatus D. C, MAY right to the office in both the male and female lines. The difficulty fortu- nately could be solved in a common sense way. There were two spurs and each claimant might bear one. This was the procedure followed at the coronations of Edward VII and George V. Then there is the provider of a glove for his majesty, an office established | by William the Conqueror. It is held, by right of birth, at each coronation by the Duke of Newcastle. A much coveted coronation office is that of clerk to the crown, who is rewarded, it is decreed by ancient custom, “with five yards of scarlet with which to make himself a cloak.” It formerly was the practice to follow the coronation with a corona- tion banquet at which all the para- phernalia and food were supplied by various exalted subjects through hereditary right. The discontinuance of this custom has done away with some of the most picturesque of cor- onation functionaries. o | Hamilton (Continued From First Page.) ‘There is none who holds the ability | to pierce the veil of the future, but | this I can say—saying it with sincer- ity and with conviction—that those of us who labor in the Republican party | are not laboring in vain. future holds any changes for their | party, I know that the new political structure will be built upon the foun- dation which we today call Repub- lican—a foundation including 17 mil- lion American citizens, among them | more than 50,000 men and women of- | ficially representng the party in the | precincts, in the wards and in the counties. And so I can say to all who | are interested in this question: do not keep this foundation firm—any | new political structure which you may envisage will either not be erected or, if it is, will not long endure. 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